I feel so bad for people over the age of thirty. Because really, the past few years of movies, television shows and music are just a rerun of 1960-1990. And there are no signs that it’s stopping.
Michael Douglas and Oliver Stone are back together again with a sequel to their 1987 hit “Wall Street.”
Douglas is reprising his role as Gordon Gekko and Stone is on board again to direct the sequel, which for now has the working title “Wall Street 2,” said 20th Century Fox spokesman Gregg Brilliant.
Brilliant said the project is timely and relevant given the state of the world.
“We need to keep the story line under wraps, but it’s literally ripped from today’s headlines,” Brilliant said. “It’s going to be very big and very cool.”
With the economy and financial markets in a tailspin, it will be different times for Douglas’ Gekko. In the original film, corporate raider Gekko was a symbol of Wall Street greed and corruption during the boom era of the 1980s.
Gekko has endured because audiences give him the “same kind of respect we’ve got for the great white shark,” Douglas said in an interview Friday with Associated Press Television News for his upcoming life-achievement award from the American Film Institute.
“He’s a villain. Gordon Gekko is a great, old-fashioned villain,” Douglas said. “And, interestingly enough, if you look at most actors’ careers, their biggest achievement, not necessarily success, but (achievement), is playing a bad guy.”
Academy Awards voters agreed. Douglas earned the best-actor Oscar for Gekko.
The sequel is scheduled to start shooting this summer. Edward Pressman, who produced “Wall Street,” also is back for the sequel, while Allan Loeb (”21?) wrote the screenplay.
How many times has this been discussed? When people are losing their homes and jobs, they want to watch Segway-ing mall cops and movies with entire casts of animals instead of people. People do not want to go watch a “story literally ripped from today’s headlines.” People are living that.
If Stone expects this movie to succeed, he better find a way to work some chihuahuas into The Chronicles of Bernie Madoff Wall Street 2.
i feel sorry for people under 30 who already hate everything.
way to miss the mark. what a stupid comment
Actually, I think the timing of this movie might work out. I doubt it will debut before 2010 and by then the worst of the recession will be over with.
Depending on the writing, Gordon Gekko could turn out any number of ways.
BEET: how could….you possibly feel bad for people over thirty, and think that anyone younger than that, (or those who think they are) could have it any easier? At the age of 38, I find myself escaping into shows like My name is Earl to get the laughs that I deserve, to escape mindless futile, insulting, patterns of reality T.V. This could very easily become a, what’s wrong with America speech. I can only hope that the young (er) people of today learn that this rancid type of behavior is not an education. Don’t be a reality skank. It’s really not o.k. to be angry all the time and break down into tears because you didn’t have anything better to do. These shows have nothing to do with reality they just tell you it sucks. Period.
DUH it’s wendie. Beet’s still in her 20s
Nice roots!
Time for a touch up Mike.
damn! he’s OLD AS HELL!
I am TOTALLY changing my last name to Brilliant.
I think now that it has been clearly demonstrated that GREED IS NOT GOOD perhaps in the sequel Gekko could be hanged by an angry lynch mob of the dispossessed or unemployed. I would personally pay to see that.
Mad Libs time! If the guy that wrote 21 wrote the screenplay for “Wall Street 2,” I’m sure it’s going to be a big ole stinking pile of ____________.
although she’s a gold digger, can you imagine how much she must hate this old guy climbing on top of her when he mounts her? you know she resents him having to put up with that